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Turning the spotlight onto the conservation of Australian bats and the extinction of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle
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Daniel Lunney
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Daniel Lunney
Office of Environment and Heritage NSW, Department of Premier and Cabinet, PO Box 1967, Hurstville NSW 2220; and School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, 6150
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Bradley Law
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Bradley Law
Forest Science Centre, NSW Primary Industries, PO Box 100, Beecroft, NSW, 2119
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Martin Schulz
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Martin Schulz
34 Wilford St, Corrimal, NSW, 2815
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Michael Pennay
Michael Pennay
Australasian Bat Society Inc., PO Box 481, Lindfield, NSW, 2070
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Published:2011
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Daniel Lunney, Bradley Law, Martin Schulz, Michael Pennay, 2011. "Turning the spotlight onto the conservation of Australian bats and the extinction of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle", The Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats, Bradley Law, Peggy Eby, Daniel Lunney, Lindy Lumsden
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The 2007 forum on the biology and conservation of Australasian bats provided a snapshot of the issues and state of knowledge at that time, now recorded for posterity in this book. As we went to press in 2011, the ‘International Year of the Bat’ provided an opportunity for bat researchers and managers to publicise some of the pressing conservation issues facing bats. No story exemplifies these more than the recent extinction of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle Pipistrellus murrayi. In his reflective book on forest pattern and ecological process, ecologist David Lindenmayer emphasised the complementarity between species-oriented and ecosystem-oriented research approaches. This applies to all of Australasia's bat fauna. The conclusion we draw is that basic research on both individual species and the ecosystems in which they dwell is required to underpin management actions, and that this research must be integrated with community education, sound policy and a commitment to act on research and monitoring outcomes.
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